Conflict must be solved immediately, peacefully

A.Yatseniuk : Conflict must be solved immediately by all
means and methods, but above all in a peaceful way

02.03.2014 | 14:17 Department of Information and
Communication of the Secretariat of the CMU

Ukrainian
Armed Forces are engaged in the protection of their own
staff, their own military units located at their home bases
and yielded to no provocation, which took place recently,
Prime Minister of Ukraine Yatseniuk said at a briefing in
the Parliament on Sunday.

He said that there had been a
series of provocations recently, "which might, in the
opinion of the Russian military, have intended the
legalization of the Russian armed troops on the territory of
the Autonomy”.

According to him, last night the
commander of the Naval Forces of Ukraine informed that
"virtually every half-hour Russia represented by the Black
Sea fleet and the troops, which is now on the territory of
the Autonomy, was trying to provoke into an armed
conflict."

"We believe that this conflict should be solved
without delay by all means and methods, and above all – in
a peaceful way," the Prime Minister said.

"We are trying
to settle this crisis at the current stage by political and
diplomatic means," said Yatseniuk and stressed that this
involved all tools.

He said that for the last 24 hours he
had held several talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel,
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, President of the European
Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, European Council President
Herman Van Rompuy, and a number of foreign ministers, as
well as the Foreign Minister of Ukraine: "All the countries
are not merely expressing concern, but have also made tough
statements and assessments of the Russian Federation’s
actions on the territory of Ukraine ", he emphasized.

A.
Yatseniuk reminded that a meeting of the UN Security Council
on Ukraine had been held. "We keep on drawing all
international organizations, starting from the UN and ending
with the OSCE, the Council of Europe, NATO, the EU foreign
ministers", said the Prime Minister.

"Our task now is to
take all measures to peacefully solve the armed conflict,
triggered by the Russian Federation without any reasons on
the territory of Ukraine ", Yatseniuk
underlined.

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